Guus Bosman

It was a busy week at work; nice that it's weekend. Sasha traveled to Durham so we left for the airport early on Thursday, and she came back home yesterday evening late. By coincidence one of her professors from the Netherlands was in Durham Thursday also so they met up.

I'm working on a project for 'the other website' that involves scanning a lot of old documents into PDF files. It's pretty cool that Adobe Acrobat Reader has built-in OCR, and that OCR works so well these days. I haven't tried OCR in a long time; the previous time must have been when I lived with my parents some 15 years ago. OCR means Optical Character Recognition: the conversion of scanned images into text. The algorithms and technology has come a long way since 15 years ago, it's really a solved problem now.

No big plans for this weekend, perhaps we'll visit Rutgers, a local university in Somerset, which has a big cultural event today. Someone we know is participating and it would be fun to say hello.